[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 52 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 14244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6549]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


U.S. Department of Agriculture; Notice of Decision on Application 
for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-
651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be viewed 
between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 00-001.
    Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710.
    Instrument: Picking and Gridding Q-Bot System.
    Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd., United Kingdom.
    Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 3666.
    Comments: None received.
    Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to 
the foreign instrument, for such purposes as it is intended to be used, 
is being manufactured in the United States.
    Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a unique multi-tasking 
robot for selecting recombinant DNA inserts with: (1) a pneumatic 
picking head for sampling 3500 colonies per hour, (2) replication of 
plates (96 or 384 wells) to distribute clones, (3) ability to create 
high density arrays of bacteria on nylon filters and (4) a rearraying 
package. The National Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum of 
February 11, 2000 that (1) these capabilities are pertinent to the 
applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows of no domestic instrument 
or apparatus of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument 
for the applicant's intended use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-6549 Filed 3-15-00; 8:45 am]
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